Raised in Alabama, I've lived in the Pacific Northwest for the last 20 years.

I write about how humans are profoundly altering the environment – from climate change to biodiversity loss – and undertaking extraordinary endeavors to preserve nature. My stories tend to focus on agriculture, food security, and land use.

My work has appeared in Nature, Popular Science, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, bioGraphic, Discover, Science, Washington Post, Civil Eats, Ensia, Yale e360, Modern Farmer, Portland Monthly and many others.

As a 2023 Nova Media Fellow, I will spend the next year reporting on emerging pollutants of concern—from microplastics to toxic algal blooms to supercharged wildfires.

In 2021, I received a MIT Knight Science Journalism fellowship to report on dust in the West. I traveled around west Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Salton Sea in California writing about changing environmental conditions. A subsequent health equity grant from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism allowed me to further report on the health consequences of toxic dust from the shrinking Salton Sea.

In 2016, I was awarded an Alicia Patterson journalism fellowship to spend the year reporting on seed sovereignty, gene banks, and crop diversity. In 2021, my bioGraphic story “Raising Nature on Florida Ranches” won the Northwest Science Writers Association’s Best of the Northwest Science Writing award. 

I’ve also received reporting grants from the Society of Environmental Journalists, The Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN), European Geosciences Union, and the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources.

A common thread through my writing is the importance of diversity – to the foods we eat, the lands we manage, and even among scientists conducting research.